Kinda ruining that City of Champions beanie. I know "attempting to overthrow the republic and install a dictator" is worse, but y'know, I'm just saying.

Tutto Italiano, Hyde Park: Italian (with everything), but don't sleep on their eggplant parm roasted eggplant balsamic with fresh mozz and basil. $12.

Oriental de Cuba, JP: Cubano (original). $10.

Edited: Tutto's parm is good, but dude below correctly notes their superior eggplant sandwich.

Hey Bill MacGregor, currently running in the Suffolk 10th: Listen to Ron!

Being an elected legislator means that you never answer questions. $70k a year just isn't enough to communicate with constituents or explain or your votes. I'm so glad you've started your campaign by having no public events and refusing to answer queries from major local groups. You did a good job dodging queries when you were Matt O'Malley's chief of staff, and I'm glad you're already in practice. (Even your twitter is deliberately vague and without content, unlike your opponent, Rob Orthman, who "knows things" and "has positions" and "thinks about stuff other than sports.")

You'll fit right in.

I'd think so; as others have mentioned, the cost of living issue is significant. In the city itself, I'd expect the most LGBT-friendly areas to be Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, the South End (haha $), and Allston-Brighton. For other areas, there's probably a pretty good correlation between the bluest parts of this map and where you'd feel most comfortable (sort by Biden %, the top thirty communities should be pretty good).

I think there's an incredibly low chance MA will, at a state level, diminish protections for trans people. Quite the opposite, now that we've finally got a Democratic trifecta (complete with lesbian governor--you can come complain that she's too cozy with finance and developers, maybe...).

Boston is one of the safest cities in the country overall. (Weirdly, NYC is doing even better on the violent crime.)

Right now? Can you find a place you can afford? If so, come on up.

Also: I glanced at your post history. Feel free to chat me if you want synagogue rec's.

/r/Boston may give you additional thoughts; its also a very active community.

This criticism is strong and well-reasoned. One exception: New Ireland was a thing. (It was dumb in real life, too.)

Fun fact: Nova Scotia is so called because it reminded the British of old Scotland. They didn't know about plate tectonics, but science would later confirm that the Scotia had once been contiguous, back before they drifted apart.

Gotta give us a little more. Tell us generally about your education and student loan history. Why is this important to you, OP?

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Dude, the headline starts with the word "Commentary." It's not masquerading as anything, OP just linked us to an editorial.

The author is quite clear on his "agenda", and musters many facts to support his position. That's how editorials work...

South shore: Quincy through Plymouth
South Coast: Fall River through Wareham (or maybe Buzzards Bay)
Southern MA: Unclear

Southcoast (New Bedford & Fall River) and Springfield area beg to differ. Check out that map!

That seems like a littttttle bit of a stretch. Many fail to live up to their own intentions, and adopt half-measures and can-kicking. Weirdly, however, crime is down, guns are down, teen pregnancy is down, unemployment is down, trash is down, education is up, incomes are up, amenities are up, in most of those cities over the course of the last couple decades.

Indeed, the reason we have the housing price crunch and the gentrification and displacement is that American cities (all major US cities are varyingly blue) have become much more desirable locations over the last couple generations. Maybe that's a result of progressive leadership, maybe it's not, but a lot of things that we cared about a generation ago are a lot better now. Change is slow and imperfect.

Edit: PS the adjective is "Democratic", when you're not watching Tucker.

It's boring because it's really old.

Boston as a whole is 17% age 18-24; WR is 4%. Boston's 23% 25-34; WR is 13%. So where the city as a whole is 40% young adults, WR is less than a fifth. It's mostly families and the elderly.

And yes it needs bike lanes.

I mean the problem to me is that real solutions involve tradeoff and piss off the losers.

We need massively more units of housing, hundreds of thousands, which will require annoying the nimby's and neighborhood defenders, building over thousands of single family homes and two story businesses, etc. (I also think they should not have many affordable units; the affordability benefits should come by bending the supply:demand ratio, not from creating stupid lotteries.)

Likewise, real police reform isn't possible without pissing off the police.

Likewise, a real Green New Deal school building program will require hiring mid and late-career professionals, pissing off the campaign staffers who wanted patronage.

Don't get me started on busing, school and neighborhood integration, or bike lanes.

She's too ambitious, and maybe too much of a lightning rod, to accept those tradeoffs. The former is on her; the latter rooted in class, race, gender, and just weird GOP conservative insanity, and I feel bad for Wu on that stuff. She should be able to make hard decisions without jagoffs threatening her and her family, expressly or implicitly. I loathe the bullhorn brigade because they unduly constrain Wu's policy choices (also they're just assholes). But I roll my eyes at Wu's please-them-all attitude, too.

I'm sorry, but that's the entire game.

Housing: we'll mostly defer to nimbys, but will give away land to a handful of developers and annoy everyone with ineffective rent control.

Education: we'll keep doing BuildBPS, but we'll call it a Green New Deal and staff it with recent graduates who have no business running a two billion dollar redevelopment project. (Edit: they added today (1/31/23) a new Chief of Capital Planning. I can't tell if she has any construction project management experience; she's former BPS transportation head.)

More education: black lives matter, but we'll skip the part where we adequately resource majority-black schools. Hell, we won't even guarantee the buses will run on time or translators will show up.

Climate: 400 ppm is an existential threat to the city, but you're gonna have to drive to work if you want to be on time.

Police reform: We'll fully fund the police and will not start a significant alternative social services response team. Hell, we won't won't even change the overtime rules that allow hundreds of police to make more each year than the mayor.

(I hope she proves me wrong, since her promises are largely good ones.)

Better: Don't pull over. Just pop open a couple brews.

Well see in the 1670's there were a ring of about a dozen "praying" (Christianized) towns, including Mashpee, Natick, and Nonantum, that had thrown in for mutual defense with the English colonists. Some went to Roxbury Latin and Harvard, where they learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. But then during King Phillips' War (against other, non-praying communities) the colonists decided they didn't really trust their own local allies, and put them out on deer island for the winter, and they died. (Okay, they forced some of them men to act as scouts, at pain of killing their families.)

Anyway Natick is a cool name, I like it too.

Grabbing the only one without chocolate or vanilla obviously because what am I a savage?

No. We get almost none. Power seems to go out on the south shore & the cape every time a kindergartener sneezes. Outages in Boston are minimal and tend get fixed fast. (Electricians up here do get bat signals that they need to rush down to the cape... again... to do line work.)

These are not exclusive, and it's... notable... how highly correlated race and wealth are. It might be that solutions that address one significantly address the other, and I don't think advocating for solutions for one excludes also advocating for solutions to the other. Addressing the cost of housing, the functioning of public transport, and access to affordable childcare and quality public schools address both issues.

Agreed. Never had a Jewish mayor, but Mike Ross's loss doesn't suggest to me that we have an antisemitism crisis here.

I'm a white dude who voted for Campbell in the primary and Wu in the general, mostly on the basis that Campbell seems to me more likely to use her political capital to help people who need it, and Michelle... doesn't want to make enemies.

But it's hardly like Campbell failed to land on her feet, and I look forward to her work in her new role.

We had a bunny rabbit that used to walk down the sidwalk snow canyon and leave little bunny rabbit paw prints on the breeze-blown fresh layer.

If you can read this, commuter bunny, I hope you didn't get eaten by a coyote.

"Asking for a friend."

If we drive into a commercial building at 50 mph (at, say, 8 am on a Sunday), knock down a structural support and half the facade, and thereby force the closure of multiple businesses, will we get a ticket?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Massachusetts